From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 15:29:04 -0400
Message-ID: <20210517192904.GA4220@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210517025102.GA24531@momjian.us>
On 2021-May-16, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> OK, what I was trying to say was that if you dump/restore, and the old
> password was md5, the newly-restored password will be md5, but it was
> very unclear. I changed it to this:
>
> <listitem>
> <!--
> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
> 2020-06-10 [c7eab0e97] Change default of password_encryption to scram-sha-256
> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
> 2020-06-10 [c7eab0e97] Change default of password_encryption to scram-sha-256
> -->
>
> <para>
> Change the default of the password_encryption server parameter to
> scram-sha-256 (Peter Eisentraut)
> </para>
>
> <para>
> Previously it was md5. All new passwords will be stored as SHA256
> unless this server variable is changed or the password is specified
> in md5 format. Also, the legacy (and undocumented) boolean-like
> values which were previously synonyms for <literal>md5</literal>
> are no longer accepted.
> </para>
> </listitem>
Ah, yeah, now I understand. WFM.
Thanks
--
Álvaro Herrera 39°49'30"S 73°17'W
"La fuerza no está en los medios físicos
sino que reside en una voluntad indomable" (Gandhi)
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org, bruce@momjian.us, barwick@gmail.com
Subject: Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft
In-Reply-To: <20210517192904.GA4220@alvherre.pgsql>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox